Social class identities - first year Flashcards
What agents help to form identity?
peers
media
religion
family
Social class is a system of ……..
Stratification
What are the two main descriptive approaches to measuring social class?
The registers general scale
The national statistics socio-economic classification
Which sociologists created the great British class survey?
Savage and Divine
What are the types of classes in upper class?
Traditional : upper class New : super rich
What does Scott say about the upper class?
OLD BOY NETWORK
network of contacts through family and connections
What 2 processes does Scott say happen in the family for social closure?
Marrying other people of elite class, eg family friends
Giving jobs to children in their companies
What does Kenway say?
Privately educated girls get fun and pleasure out of mocking those in lower classes.
Whats the most common class in society today?
Middle class
What sector do the middle class work in?
Public sector professionals such as teachers
Sometimes private sector such as lawyers
What do king and raynor say about the family?
Middle class families encourage achievement and deferred gratification Child centeredness is a distinct feature middle class families
What does Bourdieu say about the middle class and education?
Suggests the hidden curriculum reinforces middle class identities. eg through imitations, rewards, similar to home
What does Bourdieu suggest middle class have?
Cultural capital middle class values, knowledge, language levels
What does Goodwin say about the middle class and peer groups?
Yummy mummies
Defined by peer approval
What does Saunders say about the middle class and media?
Conspicuous consumption Media targets the middle class cause they have the most disposable income
What does Neo marxist wright say about middle class and workplace?
Contradictory class position
What does willis say about the working class and workplace?
anti school sub culture
‘lads’
‘learning to labour’
What does Mac an ghail say about working class?
Crisis of masculinity
Macho lads
Deindustrialisation
What do Bowles and Gintis say about the workplace and working class?
Hidden curriculum transmits ruling class values disguised as common values. This is a way to make children obedient workers
What do Mertens and D’Haenens say about the media and working class?
Lower classes use the internet less and social class is the biggest factor affecting media use.
What does Murray say about the under class?
Underclass are lazy, workshop, immoral and criminal
Who are the postmodernists who look at social class?
What do they say?
Pakulski and waters
Shift from production to consumption
What did postmodernist Skeggs say?
Working class women had instrumental attitudes to work and have no sense of class injustice
